Odaily News Malicious actors appear to have hacked into the New York Post’s X account in an attempt to defraud cryptocurrency users on the social media platform. Recently, some X users in the crypto community reported that they received private messages from the New York Post’s official X account, inviting them to participate in a podcast recording and asking to contact them via Telegram.
The fraud was first discovered on May 3 by Kerberus founder and CEO Alex Katz, who shared a screenshot showing a message disguised as coming from writer and journalist Paul Sperry and sent through the official account of The New York Post. Drew, a cybersecurity engineer and NFT collector, observed: “What’s interesting about this case is that the scammers accessed the account without authorization, but did not publish the Pump.fun address or wallet phishing link.
Instead, they contacted users via private messages and then directed them to Telegram.” He added that the scammers blocked users from replying after sending the messages to prevent the real New York Post team from noticing that the accounts had been hacked.
On-chain detective ZachXBT said that this account hack is similar to the case a few weeks ago where The Defiant's X account was used to send private messages.